The Latest Breaking News on Climate change

After heavy rain drenched last week's opening ceremony, the Paris Olympics on Tuesday wrestled with entirely different conditions as temperatures soared to 35 degrees Celsius.

In the past few years in Australia, seasonal rainfall and temperatures have left a lot of people confused. Sometimes, the hot, dry conditions usually associated with an El Niño have not eventuated. Similarly, there have been years where a La Niña did not lead to the cool, wet conditions expected.

Advocates for Texas prison inmates are asking a federal judge to declare the state's lack of air conditioning in most facilities as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment

Abha Shah tries out the multi-use pedestal-to-table fan operates at impressively whisper levels

Extreme weather is by definition rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate is rapidly warming, predominantly due to fossil fuel burning, the range of possible weather conditions, including extremes, is changing.

The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has made an urgent call for a global action plan to tackle extreme heat. His recent speech in New York came as the average temperature of the Earth’s surface has broken records twice and followed 12 consecutive months as the warmest months ever.

Water mists were used at Roland Garros and electric fans were deployed at the Eiffel Tower beach volleyball venue.

Organisers in Paris are facing accusations of creating a two-tier Olympic Games, with some athletes equipped with air-conditioning and others struggling with the heat

The 2024 Olympics is getting ready for a heat wave in most parts of France after launching with a rain-soaked opening ceremony

BoM says it was 7.6C in both cities at 7.30am, but the ‘feels like’ temperature was 5.3C in Melbourne and 0.6C in Sydney

London set to bake in heat of 32°C in coming days – prompting a Met Office weather warning